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Lidiya Tseraskaya

1855 - 1931

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Lidiya Petrovna Tseraskaya née Shelekhova (Russian: Лидия Петровна Цераская; 22 June 1855 – 24 December 1931) was a Russian astronomer. Tseraskaya was born in Astrakhan, and graduated from the Teacher's Institute in Petersberg. She worked at the Moscow Observatory, where she discovered 219 variable stars; among them (1905) RV Tauri variable and recognized its uniqueness. The Venusian crater Tseraskaya was named after her. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lidiya Tseraskaya is the 543rd most popular astronomer (up from 569th in 2019), the 2,130th most popular biography from Russia (up from 2,467th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Russian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Lidiya Tseraskaya ranks 543 out of 644. Before her are Benjamin Banneker, John Huchra, John Stanley Plaskett, Ernest Esclangon, María Teresa Ruiz, and Karl Ludwig Littrow. After her are Vincenzo Cerulli, Pavel Shternberg, John N. Bahcall, Louise du Pierry, Adelaide Ames, and Adriaan van Maanen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1855, Lidiya Tseraskaya ranks 99. Before her are Marianne Stokes, Juan Zorrilla de San Martín, Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová, Marie Stritt, Swarnakumari Devi, and Ludwig Ganghofer. After her are Edward Angle, Edward William Nelson, William Friese-Greene, John McKenna, Frederick McCubbin, and Arthur Wing Pinero. Among people deceased in 1931, Lidiya Tseraskaya ranks 133. Before her are Cesare Burali-Forti, Jetze Doorman, Alfred Maudslay, Art Acord, Axel Andersen, and Daniel Chester French. After her are Rolf Johnsson, Marvin Hart, Edward Goodrich Acheson, Luigi Galleani, John Monash, and Alma Rubens.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lidiya Tseraskaya ranks 2,130 out of 3,761. Before her are Yelena Davydova (1961), Pavel Sadyrin (1942), Daniil Kvyat (1994), Ivan Lepyokhin (1740), Roald Sagdeev (1932), and Karl Ludwig Littrow (1811). After her are Anastasia Zavorotnyuk (1971), Gregory Ratoff (1897), Vladimir Andreyev (1930), Nina Otkalenko (1928), Denis Cheryshev (1990), and Fyodor Volkov (1729).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Russia

Among astronomers born in Russia, Lidiya Tseraskaya ranks 16. Before her are Vladimir Kotelnikov (1908), Aristarkh Belopolsky (1854), Lyudmila Karachkina (1948), Pelageya Shajn (1894), Matvey Gusev (1826), and Karl Ludwig Littrow (1811). After her are Pavel Shternberg (1865), and Alexander Voeikov (1842).

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